Lesson 5-Animations Overview- This lesson is designed to engage students and to record information on a chart. The lesson will cover the different kinds of plate movements and how they can form mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes. The lesson is designed to generate notes for the students while being engaged in a hands on activity.
Instructional Objectives
Compare plate movements by recording information in a chart
Demonstrate how volcanoes, mountains and earthquakes are formed
Analyze plate movements as a whole process around the world. Have students propose a set of at least three plate movements and explain the effects they would have on the land mass or sea floor.
Hand out homework, (a worksheet that highlights the important information for the students to know from the last four lessons)
Time (95minutes) Activity
15 minutes Introduction- The class will begin with a brief recap of what they have learned so far. The students will be asked if they have any questions or if there is anything they would like cleared up. The class will transition into today's activity by the teacher stating, "Today we wil use the smartboard to discover how mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes are formed." The animations will be used to further understand plate movements.
-Materials will be handed out and directions will be read, so everyone understands the day’s lesson.
35 minutes
- Four short animation clips will be shown on the smart board. The animations are from http://education.sdsc.edu/optiputer/teachers/platemovement.html. Each animation shows a different type of plate movement; with the formation of mountains, volcanoes, sea floor spreading and earthquakes. The students will compare the different movements and record information in a chart. Students will label the animations on the smart board so the lesson is interactive. The images created will be saved and hung up in the room for the students to reference. Also, a copy will be given to each student for future reference in their notebooks.
35 minutes
Ø Take out a globe of world and ask, "How do plates move? Do plate movements occur in isolated areas? Does only one plate move at a time?” Have an open class discussion. Give examples, “if the Pacific plate is converging then maybe the Australian plate is diverging, which may cause the Arctic plate to form a transform boundary,” and so on. Let the students debate how the plates would move and the effects they would have on the surrounding plates.
Ø Hand out the class assignment, and read the directions to the students. The class assignment will have a picture of the plate boundaries on it. The assignment is to propose a set of plate movements and predict the physical features that could form from their plate movements.
10 minutes
Ø At the end of class collect the class assignment. Then hand out the homework to the students and stress that the homework covers the important information from the last four lessons. Assessment-
- Homework worksheet, that stresses the important information
Overview- This lesson is designed to engage students and to record information on a chart. The lesson will cover the different kinds of plate movements and how they can form mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes. The lesson is designed to generate notes for the students while being engaged in a hands on activity.
Instructional Objectives
Time (95minutes) Activity
15 minutes
Introduction- The class will begin with a brief recap of what they have learned so far. The students will be asked if they have any questions or if there is anything they would like cleared up. The class will transition into today's activity by the teacher stating, "Today we wil use the smartboard to discover how mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes are formed." The animations will be used to further understand plate movements.
-Materials will be handed out and directions will be read, so everyone understands the day’s lesson.
35 minutes
- Four short animation clips will be shown on the smart board. The animations are from http://education.sdsc.edu/optiputer/teachers/platemovement.html. Each animation shows a different type of plate movement; with the formation of mountains, volcanoes, sea floor spreading and earthquakes. The students will compare the different movements and record information in a chart. Students will label the animations on the smart board so the lesson is interactive. The images created will be saved and hung up in the room for the students to reference. Also, a copy will be given to each student for future reference in their notebooks.
35 minutes
Ø Take out a globe of world and ask, "How do plates move? Do plate movements occur in isolated areas? Does only one plate move at a time?” Have an open class discussion. Give examples, “if the Pacific plate is converging then maybe the Australian plate is diverging, which may cause the Arctic plate to form a transform boundary,” and so on. Let the students debate how the plates would move and the effects they would have on the surrounding plates.
Ø Hand out the class assignment, and read the directions to the students. The class assignment will have a picture of the plate boundaries on it. The assignment is to propose a set of plate movements and predict the physical features that could form from their plate movements.
10 minutes
Ø At the end of class collect the class assignment. Then hand out the homework to the students and stress that the homework covers the important information from the last four lessons.
Assessment-
- Homework worksheet, that stresses the important information
Materials needed
- Smart board
- Globe
Resources for lessons
- Plate movement chart
- Class assignment
- Homework worksheet